Amazon.com back after 15-minute outage

Amazon.com back after 15-minute outage, Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, was down from about 15 minutes Monday across the United States and Canada.

It was unclear what triggered the rare disruption, and Amazon did not respond to requests for comment.

Users from New York and Toronto to San Francisco got only error messages when trying to access the popular shopping website. The news came less than a week after the website of the New York Times went down for about two hours.